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by nkkar 1663 days ago
> when you think about the idea that everything up until now on the internet has been copyable and we are just starting to figure out how to actually give a digital thing ownership, that will change how we look at just about everything on the internet

That everything has been copyable is the accident that keeps giving. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Digital scarcity, albeit through a novel mechanism, seems antithetical. Very confusing.

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>That everything has been copyable is the accident that keeps giving. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

This must be the hacker culture version of hippies watching their children grow up to be Young Republicans and yuppies.